The world doesn't stop spinning for love in Tom Tykwer's sensuous intellectual romp.

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The film’s favorite trick is a layered montage in which the screen splits and splits again, the dialogue sometimes overlapping, to show time passing and glimpses of the activities of multiple characters.

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Tom Tykwer’s “3,” a forbiddingly sober and sophisticated comedy of adultery and sexual experimentation, is unburdened by the usual emotional markers found in films whose characters push conventional boundaries.

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German filmmaker Tom Tykwer (Run Lola Run) noodles around with form, composition, and sexuality in 3..

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Tom Tykwer’s 3 is a simple story told in a complicated way.

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In a few tender moments (such as the locker room scene between Adam and Simon) Tykwer conjures up the feeling of necessity

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But despite its fascinating and humorous moments, one can't help but be frustrated when at times it switches away to spiritual pretentiousness.

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Tykwer exhibits a fondness for split screens and other eye candy but no interest in formalities like character and plot development.

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Tykwer’s virtuosic technique has overwhelmed his work ever since, however, and no matter what the film says about sexual fluidity, you can’t shake the feeling that 3 exists primarily to justify a shot of three figures impeccably posed together on a mattress.

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Tykwer himself is unable to bid farewell to it, as is all too evident in the larded final scenes.

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